Senior / Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Cogentiq Platform

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – Cogentiq About Cogentiq Cogentiq is Fractal's Enterprise AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and govern intelligent AI agents grounded in enterprise context. By connecting AI with enterprise knowledge, business systems, and workflows, Cogentiq empowers enterprises to solve complex business problems with trustworthy, scalable, and production-ready AI. Cogentiq is Fractal’s secure, scalable, enterprise agentic AI platform that enables teams to build, test, deploy, monitor agents and multi‑agent workflows with strong observability, evaluation, guardrails and RBAC across any cloud or LLM framework. It includes a no/low‑code development console, Agent & MCP Gateways, and an enterprise marketplace for reusable agents, tools, connections and guardrails. About the Role We are looking for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to join the founding Cogentiq team. As an FDE, you will work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, enterprise integration, and customer success. You will partner closely with enterprise customers to understand their business challenges, design AI-powered solutions, build production-grade integrations, and deploy Cogentiq into complex enterprise environments. Beyond customer implementations, you'll help shape the evolution of the Cogentiq platform by transforming deployment learnings into reusable platform capabilities, connectors, and best practices. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving ambiguous, real-world problems, thrive in fast-paced environments, and are excited to build the next generation of Enterprise AI. What You'll Do Design and develop production-grade AI applications using the Cogentiq platform. Deploy enterprise AI solutions from proof of concept to production. Build integrations with enterprise applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Snowflake, Databricks, and other business systems. Develop reusable connectors, APIs, SDKs, MCP servers, and automation components. Design secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures and build reliable backend services and microservices. Collaborate directly with customer engineering and business teams to understand requirements, conduct technical workshops, and deliver successful AI solutions. Troubleshoot production deployments, optimize system performance, and ensure reliability and security. Capture learnings from customer deployments and contribute reusable capabilities back to the Cogentiq platform. Work closely with AI engineers, platform engineers, product managers, and solution architects to continuously improve the platform. What We're Looking For Strong Software Engineering: You have strong software engineering fundamentals and are proficient in Python, with experience in Java or TypeScript being a plus.